Filing shows Hilton's flaw: Geography

January 21, 2006

What do you get the girl who has everything? In Paris Hilton's case, maybe a good encyclopedia would do.

Hilton waxes idiotic in a deposition taken in November for the $10 million defamation lawsuit filed against her by diamond heiress Zeta Graff, a former flame of Hilton's ex, Paris Latsis, E! Online reports.

Graff sued Hilton last summer, alleging the heiress fed "vicious lies" about her to the New York Post's Page Six after an alleged altercation in a club.

Hilton denies she fed the lies to the press, blaming her former publicist.

During the deposition, posted on TMZ.com, Hilton demonstrated a remarkable deficit in her working knowledge of geography and Greek culture.

When questioned on the last name of a companion who was with her on the night of the reported run-in with Graff, Hilton replied, "It is like a weird Greek name. Like Douglas."

Later, Graff's lawyer, Paul Berra, asked her if she was aware that the item had made its way into "U.K. publications."

Elliot Mintz, Hilton's spokesman, scolded TMZ.com: "I was surprised to see you take a few excerpts from a deposition that runs over 200 pages and offer them up in headlines that were clearly intended to publicly embarrass Paris." Mintz added that "Paris has responded in a truthful manner," and that "she respects the judicial process."

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